Activity Specialist - Contract

A pioneer in K-12 education since 2000, Amplify is leading the way in next-generation curriculum and assessment. Our core and supplemental programs in ELA, math, and science engage all students in rigorous learning and inspire them to think deeply, creatively, and for themselves. Our formative assessment products help teachers identify the targeted instruction students need to build a strong foundation in early reading and math. All of our programs provide educators with powerful tools that help them understand and respond to the needs of every student. Today, Amplify serves more than 10 million students in all 50 states. For more information, visit amplify.com.
A pioneer in K-12 education since 2000, Amplify is leading the way in next-generation curriculum and assessment. Our captivating core and supplemental programs in ELA, math, and science engage all students in rigorous learning and inspire them to think deeply, creatively, and for themselves. Our formative assessment products turn data into practical instructional support to help students at every skill level build a strong foundation in early reading and math. Our programs provide teachers with powerful tools that help them understand and respond to the needs of all their students. Today, Amplify serves over eleven million students in all 50 states.
The Activity Specialist will work on a contract basis as part of the Digital Curriculum Team, which itself is part of the larger Amplify Math Curriculum Team. The Activity Specialist works in tandem with various groups of the Amplify Math Team to create digital lessons, practice, and assessments for Amplify Math. The Activity Specialist reports to the Digital Curriculum leadership, and ultimately to the Director, Digital Curriculum.
In general, Amplify Math lessons (and their digital lesson counterparts):

• are consistent with a student-centered, problem-based pedagogical philosophy
• foster a social, collaborative learning environment
• teach and demonstrate math in an engaging way
• help students identify as mathematicians
• demonstrate the utility, power, and beauty of math
• assist educators in orchestrating productive mathematical discussions

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate to produce digital lessons, practice, and assessments.
• Participate in rounds of feedback with various stakeholders on digital content.
• Meet regularly with Curriculum Developers and Editorial Graphers to create digital activities and share digital content.
• Work with Interaction Developers to embed digital interactives or manipulatives into lessons and other activities.
• Manage production timelines across multiple teams to meet deadlines for content creation.
• Tag content with appropriate metadata, including standards and scoring.
• Participate in workshops with Curriculum and Design teams.

Basic Qualifications:

• 1+ years of experience building lessons and/or graphs in Desmos Activity Builder, with particular attention to creating interactions using the computation layer.
• 5+ years of mathematics teaching experience.
• Bachelor's degree in mathematics education, mathematics, or another quantitative field.
• Proficiency using Google's digital teamwork tools (Sheets, Drive, Meet, etc.).

Preferred (but not Required) Qualifications:

• Familiarity with advanced authoring techniques such as pattern matching, and the use of actions in the Desmos graph component
• Insight into the experience of traditionally excluded students in the mathematical community.
• Experience with curriculum writing and/or development.
• Advanced proficiency in scripting JavaScript, MATLAB, Python, Haskell, or any other object-oriented mathematical coding language.
• Willingness to travel to Amplify's New York Office Headquarters.

*Amplify requires all staff to provide proof of vaccination for in-person meetings unless an approved exemption is provided.
We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. To that end, we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.
Amplify is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities, Females, Protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities.
This position may be funded, in whole or in part, through American Recovery & Reinvestment Act funds.
Amplify Education, Inc. is an E-Verify participant.
We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. To that end, we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.
Amplify is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities, Females, Protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities.
This position may be funded, in whole or in part, through American Recovery & Reinvestment Act funds.
Amplify Education, Inc. is an E-Verify participant.